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No. 319,227. PatentedJune 2, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

CHARLES W. GOODWIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,227, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed January 21, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. Goonwrn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Lantern, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists of a square or manysided lantern having frames open at the top to receive glass plates or panels, combined with a hinged or removable top or cover adapted to belocked, and formed or provided with a flange to reach over or fit over the open side frames, so that when the cover is closed and locked it not only looks the door of the lantern, but also looks the glass plates or panels in place in their frames, so that the lamp cannot be removed or got at except by unlocking and removing or tippingback the top or cover. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of my new and improved lantern, showing the cover locked. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken on the line :0 m of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan View of the lantern, taken on line 51 y of Fig. 1.

The lantern is composed of the square bottom plate, A, square top frame, B, three upright rectangular frames, 0, door-frame D, and top or cover E, all of sheet metal. The frames 0, frame B, and bottom plate, A, are soldered together to form the main frame or skeleton of the lantern.

To each of the side frames, 0, are formed or secured the frames 0, to receive and hold the plain glass plates or panels F.

To the door D is secured the frame (2, to hold the glass plate D. These frames 0 d are closed at the bottom, as shown at 0, Fig. 2, to support the glass, and are open at the top, as shown at 0, Figs. 2 and 8, to permit theplates of glass to be shoved down into the frames, or to permit them to be removed and new ones put in place in case all or any of them should get broken. The door D is hinged at f, so

that it may be opened to light or remove the lamp L, whichisheld upon the plate L, adapted to be held in the lantern upon the flanged end of the door D and the upper open ends of the frames 0 d, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so as to hold the door closed, and so as also to close the upper ends of the frames 0 d and prevent the glasses F D from being lifted out of the frames.

Upon the upper surface of the upper frame, B, is secured the staple j, and in the top or cover E is formed an aperture, k, that closes over the staple j, so that a padlock, M, or other lock may be used for locking the cover closed.

The bail N of the lantern is fitted in the perforated dome E of cover E, and about the lantern on all sides are secured the curved guard-wires O, to protect the glass plates from being broken.

By constructing the lantern as described, it will be seen that both the door D and the plates of glass in the lantern are locked in place by the cover E when closed, and thatin order to open the lantern the padlock M must first be unlocked and removed, and the top or cover E removed or tipped back to release the door D, so that no person without a key to the padlock can reach the light, and in case a plate of glass is broken, by simply lifting the cover E, the broken parts can be removed and a new glass put in place.

Careless employs with lanterns that are not locked are apt to remove the lamp for lighting pipes and cigars, or for other purposes, and the object of this lantern is to put a stop to such dangerous practices.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The lantern herein shown and. described, formed or provided with open side frames to receive and hold glass plates or panels, in combination with a top or cover hinged to one of said sides and overlapping the frames and locking device, substantially as described.

2. The combination,v with the main frame A B G, the door D, the open frames c d; and the glasses D F, of the cover E, provided with the flange 71, substantially as herein shown and 5 described. I

3. The combination, with a lantern-body provided with open frames (2 c, and having a staple secured to its upper portion, of the 

